2005-2014

NEW YORK (Reuters) - An alliance between hundreds of newspaper sites and Yahoo Inc has helped publishers increase advertising, but it will saddle them with unproven technology and costs them some independence and flexibility. Billed as crucial to U.S. newspapers whose print editions are steadily losing ads and readers, results of the program are hard to come by nearly a year after it began. Some...

NEW YORK (AFP) — News Corp. founder Rupert Murdoch is opening a new front in his drive for media supremacy with a launch set for Monday of his Fox Business Network in the US market. The new business news channel takes square aim at market leader CNBC, part of the General Electric Co., in th effort to capture American cable and satellite subscribers seeking financial news. The move by the 76-year...

MOGADISHU (AFP) — Somali government forces on Thursday raided and shut a radio station that interviewed a top Islamist insurgent commander who claimed responsibility for an assassination bid on the prime minister. The forces ordered Mogadishu-based Simba Radio off the air and arrested its chief Abdullahi Ali Farah and a journalist, according to a reporter who works there. "The forces came this...

Reporters Without Borders today expressed its “astonishment” at “hostile statements” made by information minister, Madobe Numow Mohamed, towards its partner organisation in Somalia, the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ), on 3 and 6 October 2007. Madobe Numow Mohamed said in a letter on 3 October addressed to all international and local non-governmental organisations that his ministry...

Reporters Without Borders condemns the kidnapping of Moussa Gueye, the editor of the privately-owned daily L’Exclusif, who was arrested, beaten and taken off to an unknown location by plain-clothes police on 8 October after being lured into a trap. His abduction came just hours after he published a story headlined “President’s nighttime escapade.” “Such archaic methods do no honour to Senegal,”...

Reporters Without Borders calls for the release of Abdullahi Ali Farah, the manager of privately-owned Mogadishu-based Radio Simba, and Mohamed Farah, one of his journalists, who were arrested today after broadcasting an interview with the head of the military wing of the Islamic Courts. “The absolute power accorded to the troops in Mogadishu logically leads to arbitrary rule, to which journalists...

(RSF/IFEX) - RSF condemns the kidnapping of Moussa Gueye, the editor of the privately-owned daily "L'Exclusif", who was arrested, beaten and taken off to an unknown location by plain-clothes police on 8 October 2007 after being lured into a trap. His abduction came just hours after he published a story headlined "President's nighttime escapade." "Such archaic methods do no honour to Senegal," the...

(MISA/IFEX) - On 10 October 2007, "Sunday Times" editor Mbongeni Mbingo was cleared of contempt charges brought against him by the House of Assembly. The Select Committee found that the editor did not in any way abuse freedom of the press, but was legitimately expressing his journalistic opinion. His right to do so is enshrined in the Constitution of Swaziland under the Bill of Rights, Section 24...

(RSF/IFEX) - RSF has expressed its "astonishment" at "hostile statements" made by information minister, Madobe Numow Mohamed, towards its partner organisation in Somalia, the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ), on 3 and 6 October 2007. Madobe Numow Mohamed said in a letter on 3 October, addressed to all international and local non-governmental organizations, that his ministry was the...

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea cut Internet connections to a string of ministry press rooms on Thursday, the latest step in a drive to close down what it says are collusive and cosy clubs. The aim of herding Seoul's journalists into a few centralised briefing rooms has provoked outrage in media organisations and brought accusations that the government is trying to muzzle the press. Some reporters...